The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 46

My brother picked up the head with one hand, and seizing the body with the other dragged it to the vault, when he threw it in and sent the head after it.

Who acts: brother, seizing, Alnaschar · What happens: pick up, seize, drag, throw in, send · To what, where: head, body, vault

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, seizing, Alnaschar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hand	nummod
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dragged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dragged	cc
12	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 dragged	csubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 body	det
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seizing	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seizing	obl
18	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dragged	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 vault	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 vault	det
22	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragged	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 threw	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 threw	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	nsubj
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	26 threw	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sent	cc
30	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 threw	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 head	det
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sent	obj
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	My brother	the head			with one hand	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	seize	gerund		the body			with the other	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
3	drag	past	seizing	head	the vault			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vault=Destination
4	throw in	past	Alnaschar	head				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	send	past	Alnaschar not said here	the head		after head		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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